I’m a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University, advised by Professor Ke Li. My main interests lie in computer vision and in computational linguistics, but I find myself dabbling broadly. I received my undergraduate degree at Cornell University, where I was advised by Bharath Hariharan and Marten van Schijndel.

Publications

IMLE-VLA: Fast Single-Step Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Policies
Kian Hosseinkhani, Qinhe Peng, George Shramko, Mehran Aghabozorgi, Jianing Qian, Tristan Engst, Alireza Moazeni, Dinesh Jayaraman, Ke Li
IROS 2026
Website

Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation Improves Masked Autoencoders
Tristan Engst, Alireza Moazeni, Ke Li
AI/CRV 2026 (Nectar Track)
Poster